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22. Januar 2005, 24. Januar 2005
01/23/2005
Commandos Get Duty on U.S. Soil
By Eric Schmitt, the New York Times, Jan. 23, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/national/nationalspecial3/23code.html
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - Somewhere in the shadows of the White House
and the Capitol this week, a small group of super-secret commandos
stood ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to swing into action to
protect the presidency, a task that has never been fully revealed
before.
As part of the extraordinary army of 13,000 troops, police officers
and federal agents marshaled to secure the inauguration, these
elite forces were poised to act under a 1997 program that was
updated and enhanced after the Sept. 11 attacks, but nonetheless
departs from how the military has historically been used on
American soil.
These commandos, operating under a secret counterterrorism program
code-named Power Geyser, were mentioned publicly for the first time
this week on a Web site for a new book, "Code Names: Deciphering
U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operation in the 9/11 World,"
(Steerforth Press). The book was written by William M. Arkin, a
former intelligence analyst for the Army.
The precise number of these Special Operations forces in Washington
this week is highly classified, but military officials say the
number is very small. The special-missions units belong to the
Joint Special Operations Command, a secretive command based at Fort
Bragg, N.C., whose elements include the Army unit Delta
Force...
01/23/2005
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